Read More 2026-06-18 Why Searching for Alien Intelligence Still Matters Now Decades of radio searches by SETI and Breakthrough Listen have found no confirmed signals. That silence reflects timing, distance, and technology limits—not proof we are alone. Continued searches expand the odds.
Read More 2026-06-17 New Analysis Reaffirms Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration A new reanalysis overturns a 2025 challenge and restores confidence in dark energy: corrected supernova handling shows the universe continues to expand at an accelerating rate.
Read More 2026-06-16 Daytime Moon Occults Venus: A Rare June Sky Spectacle On June 17, 2026 the Moon will occult Venus during daytime across parts of the Americas. Learn when and where to watch, why the event is rare, and practical tips for observing or recording this bright, brief celestial encounter.
Read More 2026-06-15 Nereid: Neptune's Lone Survivor of a Moon Cataclysm JWST observations and dynamical simulations suggest Nereid is a native Neptunian moon flung into its eccentric orbit when Triton arrived, surviving a violent restructuring of Neptune's original satellite system.
Read More 2026-06-14 Neighbors Sue SpaceX, Claim Rockets Are Cracking Homes About 80 residents near SpaceX's Starbase filed a class-action suit, claiming repeated rocket launches have caused structural damage, disrupted communities and raised questions about who bears the cost of commercial space testing.
Read More 2026-06-13 Did the Solar System Lose a Fifth Giant Planet Long Ago? New supercomputer simulations suggest the early Solar System may have ejected a fifth giant planet. The study tests 122 scenarios and finds moon survival under instability is rare, shaping constraints on the Nice model.
Read More 2026-06-12 Ancient Asteroids Sculpted Earth's Underground Hydrothermal New SwRI simulations indicate ancient asteroid impacts fractured Earth's crust, creating vast hydrothermal networks that could have fostered prebiotic chemistry and expanded environments suitable for life's emergence.
Read More 2026-06-12 New View: Milky Way Black Hole Blows Hot Gas Away Now ALMA observations reveal a three-light-year cone of hot gas being expelled from Sagittarius A*. The Milky Way's central black hole drives winds that may reshape star formation and the galactic nucleus.
Read More 2026-06-11 LIGO's Odd Signal Reignites the Primordial Black Hole Case A surprising LIGO candidate event may be evidence for primordial black holes, ancient objects possibly tied to dark matter. University of Miami researchers analyze the signal and outline what future detectors must do to confirm or refute this bold possibility.
Read More 2026-06-11 Artemis III Crew Named as NASA Advances Moon Return NASA names the Artemis III crew—Bresnik, Rubio, Douglas and Parmitano—to lead an orbital demonstration testing Orion docking with commercial lunar landers, a key step toward a planned moon landing in 2028.
Read More 2026-06-09 NASA Demonstrates Spacecraft That Switch Between Networks NASA’s PExT demonstration shows spacecraft can switch between government and commercial networks using Ka-band radios, enabling flexible routing, direct-to-Earth links, and enterprise service management for a resilient space internet.
Read More 2026-06-09 Artemis IV: New Liquid Cooling Suit for Lunar Return Axiom Space has revealed a liquid cooling and ventilation garment (LCVG) to be worn under the AxEMU suit for Artemis IV in 2028. The system circulates chilled water, supplies oxygen to the helmet, and routes CO2 to scrubbers to enable safer, longer lunar EVAs.
Read More 2026-06-08 Scientists Reveal Largest Map of Cosmic Magnetic Fields Astronomers using ASKAP have released the largest survey of cosmic magnetic fields, mapping polarization from 350,000 galaxies and revealing how magnetism shapes star formation and galactic structure.
Read More 2026-06-06 Night Satellite Capture: Typhoon Jangmi's Giant Eye Nighttime VIIRS shots from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 revealed Typhoon Jangmi’s unusually large eye as the storm strengthened near Okinawa, bringing heavy rain and flooding risk to southern Japan.
Read More 2026-06-05 The Sun's Changing Heartbeat: A Shift Under the Surface Long-term helioseismology from BiSON reveals that the Sun's magnetic activity is shifting into shallower layers, altering the relationship between interior oscillations and surface indicators and affecting space weather forecasts.
Read More 2026-06-05 Why Giant Planets Can Spin Faster Than Brown Dwarfs Keck Observatory measurements reveal that some giant exoplanets spin faster than heavier brown dwarfs, implicating magnetic braking and disk interactions in planet formation and prompting new studies with next-generation instruments.
Read More 2026-06-05 A Cannibal Star Reveals the Source of Strange Radio Signals An accreting white dwarf in a tight binary, discovered with ASKAP, explains a rare class of repeating radio signals. The finding links long-period radio transients to cataclysmic variables and opens new paths for multiwavelength study.
Read More 2026-06-04 NASA Confirms MAVEN Spacecraft at Mars Is Officially Dead After six months of silence, NASA has declared the MAVEN Mars orbiter dead. The decade-long mission reshaped understanding of Martian atmospheric loss and will leave a lasting scientific legacy.
Read More 2026-06-03 Why Hot Jupiters' Winds Slow Down Under Magnetic Brakes A study of seven hot Jupiters finds that the hottest of these exoplanets show slower-than-expected winds, likely due to magnetic braking. The pattern offers a new way to infer planetary magnetic fields and their effects.
Read More 2026-06-01 How Giant Telescopes Will Soon Reveal Earthlike Worlds New space missions and enormous ground telescopes such as the Giant Magellan Telescope will combine adaptive optics and spectroscopy to locate and study Earth-sized exoplanets, shifting us from detection to characterization.
